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Direct linkMaya Benish-Weisman – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Values serve as guiding principles, motivating specific behaviors, and actions. Peers spend a considerable amount of time together, thus offering a unique platform for the acquisition and development of values. During adolescence, a stage of life when youth are actively defining their identities, peers emerge as vital social agents, contributing…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Adolescents, Values, Gender Differences
Kathy T. Do; Eva H. Telzer – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This preregistered, longitudinal study examined how much adolescents value and integrate their parents' and peers' attitudes into their own attitudes from early to middle adolescence. Across three waves, participants (N = 172, 91 female, 11-16 years across three waves; 439 data points) decided whether to pay money to learn their parents' or peers'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Attitudes, Age Differences, Behavior Problems
H. Mandari; D. Koloseni; M. Mahunnah – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Access to traditional education is expensive and has limitations related to geographical locations. The internet development has enabled the use of alternative tools for providing teaching and learning services referred to as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Despite the advantages of using MOOCs in Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs), there is…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Age Differences, Access to Education, Higher Education
Shanshan Xu; Liang Hu – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Peers' physical exercise behaviors may influence adolescents' participation in physical exercise; however, few studies have systematically explored peer effects in physical exercise among adolescents. Methods: Data from the China Education Panel Survey were used to examine peer effects in adolescent physical exercise within classroom…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Physical Health, Health Behavior, Exercise
Tamara Van Der Zant; Terese Hooper; Katherine Dix; Toby Carslake – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2025
This report presents findings from data collected through the Reality Now program, providing a long-term study exploring tobacco and vaping behaviours among Australian secondary school students. Conducted from 2018 to 2024, the program collected nearly 30,000 responses from students in Years 7 to 11. Using a social norms approach (SNA), the…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Secondary School Students, Misconceptions
Hyrine Mueni Matheka; Ellen P. W. A. Jansen; Cor J. M. Suhre; Adriaan W. H. Hofman – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2025
Purpose: Given declining tuition funds and government grants, Kenyan universities need to develop strategies, including increased research grants and collaborations, to diversify their income sources. Well-managed doctoral students can boost a university's teaching and research outputs. However, numbers of students enrolled in doctoral programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervisors, Teacher Influence, College Faculty
Kristina Block; Eric J. Connolly – Youth & Society, 2024
An emerging body of research documents a relationship between sleep quantity and delinquency during adolescence. Absent from this line of research, however, is an evaluation of whether the associations between sleep duration and different forms of delinquency vary across periods of adolescence and sex. The current study aimed to address this gap…
Descriptors: Sleep, Adolescents, Delinquency, Grade 8
Download full textLaura Anarbek; Gulnara Sarsenbayeva; Elmira Uteubayeva; Gulnara Issayeva; Kulakhmet Moldabek; Anarbek Kozybay – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Despite the contributions of existing literature, there is a clear deficiency in studies that systematically address the development of pedagogical acmeology skills as a core component of teacher training programs. This study aims to address this gap by examining pedagogical acmeology as a holistic approach to improving…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
Siméon T. A. Lahaije; Jorien Luijkx; Aly Waninge; Annette A. J. van der Putten – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Families with a child with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) have to manage the child's pervasive support needs. To ensure that families are able to manage these needs, they should be properly supported. However, knowledge about the specific support needs of these families is sparse and fragmented, nor is it known if and which…
Descriptors: Family Needs, Children, Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities
Fryt, Joanna; Szczygiel, Monika; Duell, Natasha – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Despite empirical and epidemiological research indicating that risk taking propensity increases across adolescence, it is unknown whether this is true for positive risk taking. Additionally, adolescents' decisions are heavily influenced by their social environment, but it is unclear to what extent social influences are associated with positive…
Descriptors: Risk, Adolescents, Young Adults, Age Differences
Maysam Rezapour; Abbas Nezam Tabar; Narges Khanjani – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2022
This study examines the relation between fear of victimization, types of victimization, and advocacy, adjusted for grade and gender on 834 students from 16 Iranian public middle schools. Multilevel linear modeling was used to explore relations between types of victimization and fear of victimization. The results showed that higher fear of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Fear, Victims, Advocacy
Foster, Tiffany J.; Burchinal, Margaret; Yazejian, Noreen – Child Development, 2020
Grouping children of different ages in the same preschool classroom (i.e., mixed age) is widespread, but the evidence supporting this practice is mixed. A factor that may play a role in the relation between classroom age composition and child outcomes is peer skill. This study used a sample of 6,338 preschoolers (ages 3-5) to examine the influence…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Age Differences, Peer Influence
Vollet, Justin W.; George, Madeleine J.; Burnell, Kaitlyn; Underwood, Marion K. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study examined whether adolescents' social aggression is socialized through exposure to peers' socially aggressive text messaging. Using data on the socially aggressive content of text messages that 221 participants (M[subscript age] = 15.02 years; 46.7% female) sent to and received from peers, and teacher ratings of participants' in-person…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Telecommunications, Socialization, Aggression
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Kurt, Dilek Gençtanirim – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
In this study, aiming to understand the individual and environmental dynamics underlying school adjustment of students in the middle school period, the target was to reveal the direct effects of family support, peer relationships and gender and their indirect effects mediated by school climate and academic success on the school adjustment of…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Peer Relationship, Family Relationship, Family Influence
